Scott Sheffield
Scott Sheffield | |
|---|---|
| Born | October 20, 1973 |
| Nationality | American |
| Alma mater | Stanford University |
| Children | 4 |
| Awards | Loève Prize (2011) Rollo Davidson Prize (2006) Clay Research Award (2017) Henri Poincaré Prize (2024) |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Mathematician |
| Institutions | MIT |
| Thesis | Random surfaces: large deviations and gradient Gibbs measure classifications (2003) |
| Doctoral advisor | Amir Dembo |
| Doctoral students | Ewain Gwynne, Nina Holden, Xin Sun |
| Website | math |
Scott Sheffield (born October 20, 1973) is a professor of mathematics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. His primary research field is theoretical probability.